# Show Charts Third Column Value in ToolTip

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-charts-third-column-value-in-tooltip/923>\
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**Created:** [January 2, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-charts-third-column-value-in-tooltip/923 "2009-01-02T23:41:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-charts-third-column-value-in-tooltip/923/1 "2009-01-02T23:41:44Z")

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Is it possible to have a tooltip on a chart show a value from a third column in the dataset? In my case I have the Name on the X axis the value on the Y axis and I would like to show the date of the data point when hovered.

Thanks for the help.

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-charts-third-column-value-in-tooltip/923/2 "2009-01-03T01:00:08Z")

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Is this a bar chart you’re talking about?

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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-charts-third-column-value-in-tooltip/923/3 "2009-01-03T01:04:38Z")

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No it is a line graph with none of the lines drawn between the data points.

attached is a picture.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/e53b67fa6ebcb0045b662e192a44c7f9b5100231.JPG)

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-charts-third-column-value-in-tooltip/923/4 "2009-01-03T01:07:53Z")

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Hrm… the problem is that the line chart interprets a ‘3rd column’ as another series of data. A solution for this request (somehow attaching a string with a datapoint) would also fulfull the long-standing chart annotation feature request, but we haven’t figured out a great way to do this as of yet…